FURNITURE: include doors that allow ventilation in your kitchen cabinet

Breathing Space

When ahopping for kitchen cabinets, look out for features like this. A kitchen cabinet offers breathing space.

SHOP OPENING New Howard Storage World In the East

The expert of home storage is reaching out to residents of the East with a new Howard Storage World outlet at Tampines.
Details:

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Tampines 1

  

Ph: 6783 2878

New Condominium - East

PROPERTY

<ADV> New Launch @d'Nest ! VVIP preview tmr! Cheque cut off today!! Visit showflat today to enjoy VVIP discount!
Walking distance to MRT/WHITESANDS! SureBuy PX!
1br fr $498k
2br fr $68Xk
3br fr $82Xk
4br fr $1.1Xm
Priority 4 Multi!
Please call Lynn @ 81398092 for appointment and a detailed walk through. Nothing like seeing the place with your own eyes.

For sneak preview please surf http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=RDEJi7Jwfbc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRDEJi7Jwfbc

DIY Microwave Part Changing

Old Wave Guide Cover of table top microwave 

Our table top microwave has a wave guide cover that looks so worn out after two years of use. This is an important bit of the microwave oven, which protects the sensitive components in the oven from food and steam as they are being cooked in the oven. If it is damaged the magnetron behind it would be damaged by food that gets splattered onto it. And the cost of replacing this part is as much as a brand new table top microwave oven.

So how much does it cost to replace this wave guide cover? About S$100 inclusive of part and service charges. But the part itself is less than S$30 and you can do the replacement yourself with a lot of patience and care.

I did this DIY on my own. You can do it too!

We could not find an exact replacement for our brand, but was assured that the material is the same and we just need to snip off bits of it to fit into the notches that hold the wave guide cover in place.

Replaced wave guide cover

As the wave guide cover is made with mica take extra care to snip off a millimeter at a time. The notches on the new wave guide are a few millimeters off from the microwave oven's. After each snip I would check if the cover could fit into the allocated space. That was repeated until it fits nicely.

The pair of  stationery scissors I used to snip the delicate mica.

Refreshing Musky Leather Jacket

Remove That Muskiness

It has been years since mum wore that leather jacket of hers. When we removed it from the plastic cover that the dry cleaner has slipped over, we could smell the STRONG muskiness.

Hubs being the wiser and well-read one, instructed me to attempt removing the mold with his Armorall Protector, the McKenic Germ Killer and a spongy type of 'scrub'. After half an hour of brushing the jacket with the tools, the mold is no longer visible. However, the muskiness did not seem to budge.

So off I googled for more solution and chanced upon using sodium bicarbonate to refresh the jacket. It requires leaving the jacket wrapped in a paper bag and stored in a container for 24 hours with an opened box if sodium bicarbonate. After almost 18 hours, I opened up the box to check. The lining of the jacket which was folded outwards seemed to smell fresher than before, but not the leather.

Hence, I folded the jacket the right way (with the lining folded inwards). Wrapped everything in the bag again and placed it back into the box. This time I sprinkled more of the sodium bicarbonate generously around the bag of jacket before closing the box.

In the next 24 hours, i shall be back to reveal the result of this DIY experiment.

Please stay tuned.....

UPDATE: Sorry for the LOOOOOONG silence. The sodium bicarbonate didn't work so I sprinkled more sodium bicarbonate all over the box and placed a container with some coffee powder in the box as recommended by my friend to rid smell 2 days after. 

Result: I just removed the jacket from the box today at 26 January 2013. Conclusion is the leather is clean and smells good. But the lining of the jacket still smells dusty. Perhaps the best solution remains in sending the jacket to the dry cleaners periodically.


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